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Good for them, big mood.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago

Spiders Georg is absolutely beside himself

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

The signal to noise ratio on that network has gotta be insane.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Lolth smiles upon thee.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Is this the dark web I keep hearing about?

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder if they have any social interactions with each other, beyond mating and so on.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I wonder how much cannibalism there is. I cant imagine their prey make it far past the entrance.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Not since the cotillion last June.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Go to a lil market, discuss politics, chat in coffee shops, etc ... all in a friendly manner between two species where one is 4× larger (in body-length alone) than the other. Basically like humans & cats.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you, by chance, read "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? 😬

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The sheer hubris of actually touching it repeatedly. There is no way to know how it could react to outside bacteria and whatever else is on him. He might have just killed the entire thing just to get his Tik Tok video.

[–] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Not gonna lie, I thought this was going in a different direction. Like, the hubris, it could have reacted by swarming him like he was food to a hungry, sentient blob of nightmares.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 week ago

You summed up Tik Tok perfectly, yes.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Just being there and breathing probably releases more bacteria than just touching it

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

No way. This is cool.

[–] scott@lem.free.as 6 points 1 week ago
[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago